From octave-sources-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Sat Apr 21 23:32:38 2001 Subject: Re: GNU plot alternative From: Steve Lipa To: octave-sources at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Cc: Steven Lipa Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 00:32:36 -0400 Let me start out by saying that I have been a fan of gnuplot for more years than I care to admit, and would never say anything against it or its developers! Let me also say that I greatly appreciate the efforts of any and all octave, gnuplot, xv, vi(m), linux, gimp, xmgrace, developers. I too am an octave newbie but I have been using 2.0.16 and 2.1.3x quite a lot lately and find them very useful and very well done! But I love the grace plotting package so much (xmgrace) that I wrote some simple .m files to allow me to use it with octave in place of gnuplot. I find them very convenient, but they were written by me for me, so they are very unix-centric and do minimal sanity checking on user input. Also, they don't have many miles on them yet. On the other hand, they do have (simple) built-in help and I have written a simple example script which shows you how to use the routines, and the gzipped tarball is currently only about 2k bytes. So if there are any xmgrace fans that would like to try them out I'll be happy to send them to you. Just drop me a line if you are interested. Thanks again to any octave developers who may be listening! Steve -- Steve Lipa slipa at eos dot ncsu dot edu gpg fingerprint = 8B68 77D7 9E09 9991 C97E 25FF 6A12 D2B9 EC7D 66C1 ------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html -------------------------------------------------------------